Cutting
Advanced Technologies
cncKad supports advanced technologies, compatible with your cutting machine. Advanced cutting technologies enable the full use of machine capabilities.
You can create artistic parts, texts, and crazy contours, called Art Parts.
Adding processing for this type of part can take a long time due to compensation calculations. Sometimes, very small contours are not processed at all because the lead-in size is bigger than the contour size.
cncKad offers two options for processing such parts:
- Process the part with no compensation calculations
- Apply a minimal lead-in size
The CatEye (known also as OVS for Amada machines) is an electronic sensor on the machine that measures the sheet placement on the machine table, even when the sheet is not aligned with the pins. This is useful when you use two machines to process a part:
- A punching machine for standard holes
- A cutting machine to cut non-standard holes and the outer contours
The picture shows options for measuring the sheet
When you select one of these options for your part, the sensor on the machine measures the holes/corners and calculates how to cut the sheet.
cncKad
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Drafting
Using cncKad‘s extensive and powerful CAD commands, quickly and easily design components, or edit imported projects from customer systems.
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Punching
cncKad punching creates programs for your punch machine from CAD files and designs.
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Cutting
cncKad cutting creates programs for your cutting machine from CAD files and designs.
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Generating NC
cncKad creates efficient NC programs, taking machine capabilities and limitations into consideration.
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Simulating
Step-by-step, cncKad’s simulation displays the generated NC code, graphically showing the results of each operation.
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Milling
cncKad supports 2D milling for forming pockets and shaped contours.
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Drilling
cncKad supports drilling machines and combination machines with an extra drilling head.
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Busbar
cncKad provides full manual and automatic support for busbar parts.
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Tube Cutting
cncKad‘s easy-to-use tube cutting module offers fast and simple programming for CNC tube cutting machines.
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DNC
The DNC program offers up/download communication with the machine controller for remote batch loading and NC file extraction.
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Reports
Metalix offers detailed cncKad reports using a variety of production report templates.